Lina Basquette's father, Frank Baskette, committed suicide at age 36 during the making of this film. Lina was given one day off to attend his funeral.
Lina Basquette recalled clashing with director Lois Weber during the making of this film and noted that her own troubled family life probably contributed to both the discordance on set and to her own lackluster acting. In her 1990 autobiography, she wrote: "I contributed a wooden, awkward, awful performance. I hated Lois Weber. She was female and looked a lot like Mama. No matter how hard she tried, Madam Weber couldn't drag a good scene out of me. "
A Bluebird Production. Universal, lacking its own theater chain, devised a 3-tiered branding system to market its features to independent theater owners: Red Feather (low-budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases), and Jewel (prestige pictures made to command higher roadshow ticket prices). The studio discontinued this marketing method in late 1929.
According to a contemporary article in Moving Picture Weekly, Universal moved the contents of a five and ten cent store to the studio's store set. The Meyer's home set was dressed with furniture purchased from local families in the same socioeconomic status, and real corned beef and cabbage was cooked on a working stove on the set for atmosphere.
A deteriorated copy of the film was discovered at EYE Film Instituut Nederland in 2008.